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The End: Review for Exam 

Bulletin: After class Thursday I added links to a couple of business and government web pages on Thursday's class page, including some either mentioned in class, or in the DTE, or linked to previous class pages that you might have missed... just in case they help with the treasure hunts or life in general.

Reminder: I plan to unlock the Howell 201 Mac lab (and the front door, if it's locked) from 12 noon to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

Topics for today:

• Share your pages!
• Review the course!
• Celebrate!
• Any Questions?

Assignment

• Report treasures on your Web page! Due Today 9:45 a.m.
• Sleep late Tuesday, but set your alarm clock for Wednesday... exam at 8 a.m.

Related sites:

• Review some of the places we've gone during this short month.
• Take the first practice test again. This test is multiple choice, as is the final. The final will cover the full course, with less emphasis on HTML than the mid-term. Study the DTE handouts on library databases, Boolean searching, and government documents.
• Take the second practice test!
• Review the assignment links for The whole course!
• If treasure hunting gets tedious, here's some relief the Cool Site of the Day Site, in answer to Mr. Waits' question about a more positive alternative to webpagesthatsuck.com --included is cool zones, which tries to organize past cool sites by topic.
• Less fun, but more focused, you might want to look at Roger Black's Web Sites That Work site, with some ideas from his book by the same name. I considered assigning this book to the class, but it's terribly expensive. Nice to see he's giving away at least a little of it online. (By the way, he's a famous designer for national newspapers and magazines who has branched out into the Web. For some clients, see iab.com/sites/sites.html, and to meet one of his very cool young employees, see Lucie Soublin's home page.)
• Almost last, but not least, Netscape itself offers a Web developers page that features how-to tips and good examples. It's linked to Netscape's home page, if you can find it on the growing "portal" menu, or you can go directly to: http://developer.netscape.com/openstudio/. Microsoft has a similar SiteBuilder Workshop page. Both of these sites are good places to keep learning on the Web. Watch for tips on the stuff we didn't deal with in this course, including Javascript, DynamicHTML, Cascading Style Sheets, and probably a new buzzword every month! (That's the way the Web goes round!)
• Speaking of learning, as the new semester starts, remember you can take free courses on computer applications from UNC-CH Academic Technologies and Networks (ATN), including Internet courses and Photoshop courses.
• Finally, here's how we spent our summer vacation

Books for the (August) beach:

• O'Brian, Patrick. Master and commander. New York: W.W. Norton, 1990.
  No computers. Get away from technology. No banjos, either. Just wooden ships and an open ocean, minuets instead of microseconds, Napoleon to fight instead of Bill Gates... and romance ashore. I suspect there's as much danger of addiction here as in cyberspace: See below.
• O'Brian, Patrick. The Commodore. New York: W.W. Norton, 1995.
  This is number 17 in the same series of novels, and a good place to start in the spirit of non-linear hypertext. It has subplots about child-raising, revolution in Ireland, and the slave trade to fight on the African coast.

So, What Did You Learn Today?